(verb) : frondĕo, ēre, id.
* To have or put forth leaves, to be in leaf, to become green: cum jam per terras frondent atque omnia florent,Lucr. 5, 214: nunc frondent silvae,Verg. E. 3, 57; Ov. Am. 2, 6, 49: vitis multa materia frondens,Col. 3, 1, 5: frondentia arbuta,Verg. G. 3, 300: examen ramo frondente pependit,id. A. 7, 67; for which: frondenti tempora ramo Implicat,id. ib. 135: frondens campus,Luc. 6, 83: frondere Philemona Baucis, Baucida conspexit senior frondere Philemon,Ov. M. 8, 714 sq.: frondem ac flores addidit; Non lanas, sed velatas frondentes comas, i. e. crowned with leaves, Poët. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 24.

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